<![CDATA[After years of experiences, to day we witnesses that the practices of
decentralization concept tend to be far away from its main concepts: that
is to strengthen hen and develop local values through people involvement in
the development process. In the names of local needs, initiatives and power,
decentralization today is used as a vehicle for exploiting local resources at
all cost. Destruction of traditional and vernacular spaces and territory is one
of most tangible fact that we could ¡dent ij5’ as’ the failure of implementation
of the decentralization concept. This research aims to explore and develop
concepts that could be used as an opposition approach for understanding the
recent practices of decentralization. The exploration is focused on what this
research called as “ruang lokal/local space and territory “. The research
concludes that “local s1ac and territory” should be strengthen through its
three pillars: (1) spatial compound (pelapisan spasial), meaning the engagement
of space, human activities, and local values, (2) typology and structure of
powers, to include: spiritual, cultural, institution, kinship, and economical
powers, and (3) the character of local space and territory, which appears as
a product of engagement of spatial capital and social capital]]>
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